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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: YellowandBlackBlood on August 13, 2013, 05:38:12 PM
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http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lions-sack-coach-michael-voss-20130813-2ru9b.html
After the tiges disposed of Brisbane, it forced the Brisbane board to sack Voss!
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Brisbane coach Michael Voss will depart the Lions after being told on Tuesday that his contract would not be renewed at the end of 2013.
The Lions players were called to an unscheduled meeting at the club at 3.30pm Tuesday. Club bosses are understood to have informed their three-time premiership captain that he would be replaced.
Strong speculation now surrounds former Sydney premiership coach Paul Roos. Roos is believed to have been unofficially approached by Brisbane about one month ago when he is said to have rejected an offer to return to AFL coaching.
Brisbane chairman Angus Johnson is understood to have spoken with Roos. He did not return calls late on Tuesday.
http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/lions-sack-coach-michael-voss-20130813-2ru9b.html
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Hai Roo$y
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Sign him assistant
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Voss: "inb4 Hird"
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Sign him assistant
Likey
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we have the best assistant going round....loony foss Williams.Offer him a bucketload of cash to stay
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Lions on hunt for new coach after dumping Michael Voss
By staff writers
6:23pm AEST Tuesday, August 13, 2013
MICHAEL Voss' tenure at the Brisbane Lions has come to a sudden end after the club decided not to renew the senior coach's contract for 2014.
AFL.com.au understands the Lions board came to the decision this morning, at which point it was decided to tell Voss immediately.
Players and staff were called to an unscheduled meeting at the club at 3.30pm, where they were told of the news.
"I don't know how I feel to be honest," Voss told Channel Seven on Tuesday evening.
"Tomorrow I'll wake up and I don't go to work, and that's all I know.
"The club's dear to me, but what I get a kick out of is I've gone every day and there's been something to improve in our players.
"I think that's what I'll miss the most.
"I'm not angry, I'm not sad. There's a little bit of disappointment there, but more because we've put five years of work into this."
Voss took to Twitter to thank fans for their support, while his Lions premiership teammate Craig McRae was among those to offer their sympathy.
Voss was out of contract at the end of this season but there was been speculation the Lions were poised to offer him a new deal.
Earlier on Tuesday evening, The Age reported Voss' sacking and linked Sydney Swans premiership coach Paul Roos to the job, saying he had been unofficially approached a month ago.
The Lions have won eight games this season and are 13th on the ladder.
Voss held a press conference earlier on Tuesday, where he declared the Lions would jump at the chance to play finals if the opportunity arose as a result of possible penalties handed to Essendon over the Bombers' controversial supplements program.
Voss, who never served as an assistant coach at an AFL club, took over from Leigh Matthews at the Lions the end of the 2008 season.
He took the club to the finals in his first season but after an aggressive 2009 trade period that backfired, the Lions have not played in September since.
Their best finish since 2009 has been 13th. Voss has a 40 per cent winning record as coach.
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-08-13/lions-dump-voss
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Hai Roo$y
Brisbane getting in before Essendon do if Hird is gonski as well?
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Why sack him at round 21 when the team is crap anyway and they ain't playing finals. Nice way to treat a former champ.
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Should have been sacked after that disastrous trading year.
With Merret, Black and Merret just about done and dusted they will not make finals for years.
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Should have been sacked after that disastrous trading year.
With Merret, Black and Merret just about done and dusted they will not make finals for years.
Not even with two Merrets could they beat us :shh
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Oops was meant to be Brown
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Shame for Voss really and a shame for us, with the Dees and Lions jobs open.....goodbye Choco.. :-[
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Dimma
Voss
Choco
:cheers
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Why sack him at round 21 when the team is crap anyway and they ain't playing finals. Nice way to treat a former champ.
It gives the supporters a few games to attend while his still coaching and see some victories.
I think it'll be unfair on him to sack him after the season.
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Why sack him at round 21 when the team is crap anyway and they ain't playing finals. Nice way to treat a former champ.
It gives the supporters a few games to attend while his still coaching and see some victories.
I think it'll be unfair on him to sack him after the season.
Ch7 said he won't coach out the remainder of the season
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Why sack him at round 21 when the team is crap anyway and they ain't playing finals. Nice way to treat a former champ.
It gives the supporters a few games to attend while his still coaching and see some victories.
I think it'll be unfair on him to sack him after the season.
Ch7 said he won't coach out the remainder of the season
So did Voss
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Get Voss as an assistant!
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GET HIM RICHMOND!
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Get Voss as an assistant!
Put him in charge of our draft picks
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Bring Raines back
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:lol
What is about failed coaches from other clubs that inspires such misplaced passion in some of our supporters?
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:lol
What is about failed coaches from other clubs that inspires such misplaced passion in some of our supporters?
Like Mark Williams ...
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:lol
What is about failed coaches from other clubs that inspires such misplaced passion in some of our supporters?
Like Mark Williams ...
Mark Williams wouldn't have been in the failed basket
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You're nothing if not consistent torch
And you have to be kidding :rollin
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Holy Trinity
And you have to be kidding :rollin
::)
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:lol
What is about failed coaches from other clubs that inspires such misplaced passion in some of our supporters?
Like Mark Williams ...
Chocco has coached a flag and had Port consistently in finals before the bottom fell out of the club.
Vossy well he was the architect of some of the most outlandish trades in the last 5 years. :lol :rollin :lol
Shame we didn't go on with the job in the second half and really put the exclamation point on the sacking.
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Would he be a better forward coach than our current forward coach?
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yeah, like mark williams :lol
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Lions have a fair good list ...
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One topic covering all angles ;D
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Boo sack the board
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Boo sack the board
Just think of it as conditioning as to what is going to happen to the Bombers ;D
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Lions have a fair good list ...
As opposed to the disaster zone that is Melbourne and their list. This is why this is bad news for the Dees. The best candidates will chase the Lions' gig.
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he should have done what hird has and refused to go.lmao
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Heraldsun is reporting Paul Roos spoke to Brisbane about the coaching position a month ago.
The article is behind pay wall.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/brisbane-lions-coach-michael-voss-will-not-be-given-a-new-contract/story-e6frf7jo-1226696515172
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i wouldnt be going after Voss Id be more happier if we brought someone new from outside the current coaches into the club like Cameron Ling and just give Justin Leppitsch a promotion to be the senior assistant.
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na if it aint broke
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Lions have a fair good list ...
They do! No thanks to Voss ... ;)
Why wouldn't we get him as an assistant?
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Heraldsun is reporting Paul Roos spoke to Brisbane about the coaching position a month ago.
The article is behind pay wall.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/brisbane-lions-coach-michael-voss-will-not-be-given-a-new-contract/story-e6frf7jo-1226696515172
Not if you enter news.com.au
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Here it is:
Brisbane Lions coach Michael Voss terminated with the Lions already speaking to Paul Roos
by: Jon Ralph, Greg Davis
From: The Courier-Mail August 14, 2013 12:00AM
PAUL Roos has confirmed he had spoken to Brisbane about their coaching position a month ago, as Michael Voss was left reeling from his sudden sacking.
Club legend Voss was sensationally terminated by the Lions, just hours after speaking optimistically about the club's finals chances.
But while Roos has already been linked to the vacant role, he told the Herald Sun he had made no commitment to the Lions.
He was called by Brisbane chief executive Malcolm Holmes last month but told him he felt uneasy about talking to any club that had a coach in place.
In an extraordinary development, Holmes told Roos that Voss was aware that he was being approached, despite hoping to win another contract. Just as with Melbourne's coaching position, Roos is refusing to rule out further discussions while at the same time saying he is unlikely to coach again.
"Malcolm Holmes rang me a month ago and said Michael (Voss) knows about the phone call, and I reiterated what I had spoken about to Peter (Jackson, the Demons CEO),'' he said.
"I am happy to talk to Peter on a regular basis because they don't have a coach but I said I felt very uncomfortable talking to Brisbane. In terms of contracts, there is no contract and nothing like that at all. But it is the same discussion I have had with Melbourne. Unless something changes.
"They assured me that Vossy knew they were calling me. They said it was a discussion Michael knew about.''
With Voss winning five of the last eight games for eight wins in 2013 - with contests against GWS and the Western Bulldogs to come - he appeared blindsided by the decision.
But Lynch, connected with Voss through management firm Velocity, said he suspected his former teammate was in trouble.
"I have heard around Brisbane in the last couple of weeks Michael wasn't going to be re-signed, but this has come out of the blue for Vossy.''
Senior assistant Mark Harvey will become the caretaker coach for the last three rounds, and would be the only other contender for the full-time role.
Voss declined an offer to coach out the last three weeks of the season.
The sacking immediately opened the door for Sydney premiership coach Roos to return to his Lions roots - he played 267 games with Fitzroy before moving to the Swans.
Voss told Channel Seven last night he was shocked to be sacked.
"I don't know how I feel; tomorrow I will wake up and don't go to work and that's all I know,'' he said.
"I've loved (the Lions) more than anything else, and the club is dear to me... I have gone in every day and (attempted) there has been something to improve in our players. That is what I will miss the most.''
Voss took the Lions to the finals as recently as 2010, where they beat Carlton at the Gabba, but he would win only 43 of his 109 games in charge.
Ultimately, his legacy will be tainted by the decision to recruit Carlton's Brendan Fevola on a massive deal.
It was regarded as the worst trade in history, with Fevola soon gone, Lachie Henderson off-loaded, and disgruntled stars Daniel Bradshaw and Michael Rischitelli leaving amid the fallout.
Brisbane chairman Angus Johnson was booed and heckled by sections of the crowd at a Lions function when he announced the sacking.
One guest at the Lions gala auction night at the Brisbane Convention Centre yelled out "sack the board'' during Johnson's statement at the start of the function.
Former Brisbane coach Robert Walls said it was an "absolute shock'' that Voss had been sacked, immediately linking him to the vacant Melbourne job.
He suggested on SEN Radio that Leigh Matthews might return to Brisbane for one final coaching hurrah.
But the four-time premiership coach told the The Courier-Mail only last month the coaching fire had been extinguished.
"That's what I did for my whole life; when you are in it, you live it,'' he said. "It is not a job - it is a lifestyle, an obsession and an addiction. I regard it that way and I'm not going to do that again."
Former teammate Chris Johnson said he was "very shocked" by Voss’s sacking.
"I thought 'Vossy' had done enough in this back end of the year with some of the results going the Lions' way," he told 3AW on Tuesday night.
"Obviously in the front end of the year things weren't looking great for him, but I thought he'd done a fair bit of work with the playing group to get them up to be somewhat competitive at the end of the year...
"He's had the players on-side the whole time he's been coaching the Lions, but it has (a lot) to do with the actual list he has too. (It) hasn’t been a great list, and I thought Michael has done a fantastic job to get out (of it) what he has."
- with Warwick Green
http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/brisbane-lions-coach-michael-voss-will-not-be-given-a-new-contract/story-fndv8d6r-1226696515172
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Lions have a fair good list ...
They do! No thanks to Voss ... ;)
Why wouldn't we get him as an assistant?
because if he has a good list and failed as a coach, what does that say about his coaching ability?
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Heraldsun is reporting Paul Roos spoke to Brisbane about the coaching position a month ago.
The article is behind pay wall.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/brisbane-lions-coach-michael-voss-will-not-be-given-a-new-contract/story-e6frf7jo-1226696515172
Not if you enter news.com.au
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Lions have a fair good list ...
They do! No thanks to Voss ... ;)
Why wouldn't we get him as an assistant?
because if he has a good list and failed as a coach, what does that say about his coaching ability?
Really al, isn't it obvious ;D :huh
It clearly says that there are no excuses for the RFC not get him as an assistant :rollin